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Kenyan Oil, Hot and Getting Hotter: Interview with Taipan`s Maxwell Birley

There are risks, however, it's a place where you can work, so we're being very respectful and careful to nurture successful relationships.

(LONDON OilPrices.com) - Kenya has become the hottest oil and gas venue in East Africa since big discoveries were made in the country's virgin oilfields last April.

All eyes are on Kenya in 2013 to see how quickly--and economically they can develop those discoveries into production.

Christians Were Not Mass Murdered in Nigeria During 2012

Salem-News takes one in the chops.

(SALEM) - This article initially stated that Muslims in Nigeria had burned Christians alive.

How an Ant Crushes an Elephant

President Obama's bill regarding Eastern DRC specifically calls for sanctions on foreign aid to any country working to destabilize The Congo.

(WASHINGTON DC) - On January 3, 2012 President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 despite his own threat to veto it over exclusions on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

A small portion of the Act has the potential to greatly affect Central Africa.

Ethiopian Migrants Abused and Unwelcome in Yemen

The majority of migrants leave the security of their home, the love and comfort of their families, not because they want to, but because they have, they believe, no alternative.

(LONDON) - Year on year the numbers of men women and children leaving Ethiopia in search of work and freedom from repression in one of the Gulf States and beyond is increasing.

Lured by the often hollow prospect of earning enough money to support their family, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) estimate around 85,000 men women and children, desperate and naive, have this year, no matter the severe risks, made their way to Yemen, the hub of migration out of the Horn of Africa.

`I would go down in flames if that is what is required` - Ambassador Susan Rice

Ambassador Rice should re-read the Group of Experts report on the situation in the Congo and begin to “feel the heat” of her inaction.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Susan Rice has been the target of a media and twitter frenzy calling on her to take swift and concise action in Central Africa.

They are pressing her to impose sanctions on the Rwandan Government for backing M23 rebel group that is currently terrorizing Eastern Congo in both weaponry and military orders.

Is Rwanda a Normal Country?

The Rwandan reality known to the world is the RPF version simply because it has not been challenged for 18 years.

(Canada) - Yes, Rwanda is a normal country, a normal country with a tragic part of its history but never-the-less, normal.

But, Rwanda has an abnormal leadership under President Kagame and his party RPF. The Rwandan Genocide started in April, 1994 and ended in July the same year.

Kenya`s Citizens are Dying to Stay Out of the Hospitals

40,000 poor people are being held inside Kenya's hospitals for nonpayment

(SALEM, Ore.) - If Kenyans are too poor, they simply do not seek healthcare.

You would probably choose to avoid the doctor too, if the hospital refused to release patients who didn't pay their bill on the spot.

Violence in the Congo

"We are calling on the International Community to protect the innocent civilians of the DRC"

(WASHINGTON DC) - The violence in the DRC has escalated over the last week by the rebel group M23, a rebel group the UN believes is supported and backed by Rwanda and Uganda, a claim they vehemently deny.

Due to the severe and ever increasing humanitarian crisis that is unfolding in this region Actionaid has workers on the ground in Goma who are actively assessing the needs of those displaced and in need.

The Tragedy of Goma

The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has become too close to President Kagame; he lost objectivity in dealing with the crisis in DRC.

(WASHINGTON DC) - For the last several months Rwandans, Congolese, Africans and the international community have watched as the predictable drama from Kagame's regime plays our once again in the Kivu region of Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

With the birth of M23, the Kigali regime re-engineered the mutation of an old proxy force..

BREAKING: Democratic Republic of Congo: Trouble in Goma

M23 rebels threatening city of Goma; capital of North Kivu province in the DRC.

(GOMA/SACRAMENTO/WASHINGTON) - "Things are very tough nowadays here on ground".

In the span of a single five minute Facebook chat, a contact in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) says residents were concerned about reports of rebels massing on the outskirts of town, then he began hearing explosions.